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so i am aware that if we were to have a siggy + avatar , it must equal to a maximum of 80kb .
my avatar is 40kb , while my siggy i just made is 90kb .
if i host it at lets say , photobucket , will the rules still apply ? or do they only apply to the GBAtemp Upload Service ?

It's bandwidth considerations for the viewers (which is pretty global across all forums).

15 posts per page, and if every post on a single page is a different person and everybody has 80KB in their avatar and sig, that's an additional 1.2 megabytes per page. That may not seem like much to some people in countries with fast internet, but if you've got crappy internet it really makes an impact on speed, and lots of people have metered bandwidth. If limits were raised (to say 200KB total), that's three megs possible per page they view. Many ISPs that meter bandwidth have low limits and charge a lot for overage.

It's bandwidth considerations for the viewers (which is pretty global across all forums).

15 posts per page, and if every post on a single page is a different person and everybody has 80KB in their avatar and sig, that's an additional 1.2 megabytes per page. That may not seem like much to some people in countries with fast internet, but if you've got crappy internet it really makes an impact on speed, and lots of people have metered bandwidth. If limits were raised (to say 200KB total), that's three megs possible per page they view. Many ISPs that meter bandwidth have low limits and charge a lot for overage.

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Which is complete bull. People from other countries, or slow internet can just turn the sigs/avatars off.